21-05-2025
China-US Trade Soars as Exporters Race to Hit Trade Truce Window
A temporary trade truce between the world's two largest economies has sparked a knee-jerk bounce across China's ports and factory floors.
In the week beginning May 12, when the US and China agreed to sharply reduce tariffs for 90 days, bookings on freighters headed from China to US shores more than doubled from the prior week to about 228,000 TEUs, or twenty-foot equivalent units, data from container-tracking platform Vizion and data provider Dun & Bradstreet shows.
